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Capt. Harold Terry isn't the first Lehi officer to have a loaded firearm aimed and shot at him.
In less than 10 years, at least three officers have been in the line of fire. The first was on Aug. 3, 2001, and was a fatality. Officer Joseph D. Adams was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop in Lehi in 2001. He is the only officer ever killed while on duty in Lehi's history.
A plaque with a picture of the slain officer and the date of his death hang on the wall at the police department. The city's police station bears his name and every officer has his initials on the patches of their uniforms. His younger brother, Zac Adams, is one of the city's newest police officers.
A 38-year-old former Lehi police officer, Art Henderson, precipitated a shoot out with Lehi police on Jan. 27, 2006, in the middle of 1500 North street and Trinnaman Lane. One bullet came so close to hitting an officer, it ricochetted off his boot during the confrontation.
Earlier in Lehi history, Officer Karl Zimmerman, who would later serve as chief of police, heard a shot whistle over his head in Sept. 22, 1966, according to the city's historian Richard Van Wagoner in his work "Lehi: Portraits of a Small Town."
He was investigating a parked car at the Lehi dump when he "heard a shot whistle over his head as he approached the vehicle ... It turned out that five men had been stripping down an abandoned car when Zimmerman drove up. Two minors were referred to juvenile court, while the older three were given citations for trespassing." |
